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University of Twente NOC Destroyed
JanJoost writes "Around 08.00 CET today the University of Twente Network Operations Center, which amongst other things hosts a SURFnet PoP as well as security.debian.org and non-us.debian.org, caught fire.
The UT, which hosted the HAL in august last year is completely unreachable and is not likely to come back up any time soon. The fire department has given up every hope on protecting the server area and is now trying to protect the surrounding buildings.
More information can be found at the Telegraaf,
Planet Internet and Twentsche Courant.
Pictures can be found here and here.
It's a shame to see a great infrastructure go down in flames like this."
Capacity usage of the world largest interconnection lines roughly halved today.
The cause of this is thought to be a steadily decline in warez/divx/mp3 traffic. The underlying reason for that is still unknown.
It's the fastest university network in the netherlands, and it's running a lot of mirrors (debian mirrors and others). The most important thing: terabytes of warez. :)
(I believe it was the BSA lighting the fire :) )
.sig: No such file or directory
The University of Twente's attempts to overclock the new AMD Opteron and Nvidia GeForceFX card in the same case are declared a failure. "We certainly won't be building a Beowolf cluster of these..." commented a spokesperson.
UNIX? They're not even circumcised! Savages!
those crazy Dutch and their roaches
There are places where the networks are not touching,and there are places where they are-Boeing's Lori Gunter
Someone took "firewall" too seriously? :) :p)
(and this isn't *flame*bait
"The majority is always sane, Louis." -- Nessus
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They're not gone. They're just experiencing a Distributed Combustion Denial-of-Service attack.
Who posted a link to UT's webserver on slashdot?
Duct tape + WD40 => DevOps
the last syslog entry from AR5.Enschede1.surf.net to SARA: :-)
Nov 20 08:20:51 lo0.ar5.enschede1.surf.net 3613: Nov 20 07:20:50.927 UTC: %ENV_MON-2-TEMP: Hotpoint temp sensor(slot 18) temperature has reached WARNING level at 61(C)
Dangerous server rooms
Boy Scouts Of America? Which merit badge would that be?
"Witnesses saw a large balding man monkey dancing from the scene and a slim geeky man with glasses trailing behind continuously adjusting his glasses." An in other news....
The arson and destruction of private property badges. If a car burnt as well, they're well on their way to achieving the elusive 'inciting riots' and 'urban terrorist' badges. These last two were proudly held by a select few: Ted Kazinsky, Che Guevera, and Jimmy Carter
You think that I'm crazy, you should see this guy!
To have a safe network one needs to spread (duplicate) the information over several computer at several locations.
;-)
What a stunning idea. Perhaps they should call it the internet...
To never keep back-ups in the same physical location.
That's why I use Kazaa to keep backups of my pr0n all over the world!
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
I wonder if they got the Linux "easter egg" error message "Printer on fire"? I guess it would be appropriate for once.
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
... finally gets to make an appearance in earnest.
'lp1 on fire'
Real Daleks don't climb stairs - they level the building.
Some damn fool wrote an assembly program that used the dreaded HCF instruction, didn't they?
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Maybe I shouldn't have released that code after all...
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Dan Kaminsky
DoxPara Research
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lp0 on fire!!!
(sorry, couldn't help myself...)
If bad puns were like deli meat, this would be the wurst
Twente's high-speed network was originally constructed to provide students with access to high-speed Internet access for their studies. It soon became one of the major hubs for peer-to-peer exchange programs like KaZaA. This perceived misuse of Internet resources caused former Dutch education minister Loek Hermans to comment: "It would be nice if the students at Twente University would use their fast connections for information and education purposes, instead of downloading huge amounts of porn."
Phil, just me
"Cattle Prods solve most of life's little problems."
Maybe it was a flame war between students? Were they overclocking? The dangers of using FireWire. Were their harddrives Quantum Fireballs? (They are now) Is this what you get when you try to hot-swap them?
Other sad jokes will no doubt follow.
So wait, the University of Twente NOC caught fire. Why? Was there a story posted on Slashdot's front page that linked to a server at their location? Or was this fire caused by something other than a hardy slashdotting?
Why bother.
Microsoft said they were looking for new strategies to counter the rise of linux, but who woulda thought they'd go this far?
I am a viral sig. Please copy me and help me spread. Thank you.
...I believe you have my stapler?
I personally don't keep backups. However, I'm sure at least two other me's in parallel dimensions do, so I'm probably good to go.
Hopefully the other me's in the other dimensions aren't counting on me to keep backups. Those idiots.
"People that quote themselves in their signatures bother me" - athakur999
You'll get out of breath easily, but as long as you stay calm you won't have to worry
And, as we all know, there's nothing more calming than being in a room that's on fire and having some funky gas poured into the room that makes it harder to breath
Casual Games/Downloads
It soon became one of the major hubs for peer-to-peer exchange programs like KaZaA
DMCA enforcement in full effect
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